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語源

From French sélénium, the name coined by Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius in 1818 from Ancient Greek σελήνη (selḗnē, “moon”) in reference to original confusion with the similar element tellurium.^[1]

発音

• (英国発音, 米国発音) enPR: sĭlēn'ēəm, sĭlēn'ēəm, IPA^(key): /sɪˈliː.ni.əm/, /səˈliː.ni.əm/
• 韻: -iːniəm

名詞

selenium (usually uncountable, 複数形 seleniums)

2. A nonmetallic chemical element (symbol Se) with an atomic number of 34, used mainly in glassmaking and pigments and as a semiconductor.

   Hypernym: chalcogen

   • 2019, Bill Bryson, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Black Swan (2020), page 4:

     Pluck almost any cell from your body and it will have a million or more selenium atoms in it.

3. A single atom of this element.

派生語

参照

• David Barthelmy (1997–2023), “Selenium”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database.
• “selenium”, in Mindat.org‎^[1], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2023.

参考

• selenium on Wikipedia.

アナグラム

• Melusine, emulsine, semilune, seminule

Latin

語源

From Ancient Greek Σελήνη (Selḗnē, “moon”) + -ium.

発音

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /seˈleː.ni.um/, [s̠ɛˈɫ̪eːniʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /seˈle.ni.um/, [seˈlɛːnium]

名詞

selēnium n (genitive selēniī); second declension

1. (New Latin) selenium

語形変化

Second-declension noun (neuter).